Words matter. These are the best Maverick Carter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love basketball. I mean, I watch basketball pretty intensely.
It’s impossible to get to a billion dollars by endorsement deals. The biggest deals only take you so far. It’s how you make money when you’re asleep that’s going to get you there.
LeBron and I have always been about finding companies that we truly believe in and putting real money into them. We’re not talking putting in $15,000 or $20,000. It’s real money plus the expertise, understanding and knowledge that we bring, as well as bringing LeBron’s name and likeness to the product.
I look at everything from 100,000 feet.
More Than’ challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, ‘More Than’ implores you to take massive risk.
Soccer is Europe’s biggest sport and the world’s biggest sport, so as we look to go into Europe, soccer is the way to do it because of the sport’s size and scale, as well as its athletes who know and understand our brand.
I love to learn about people.
For SpringHill, it’s always important that the content find the right platform, not the other way around.
You should do as much stuff as you have the ability to do because it will help you find what you really want to do.
More Than’ means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.
Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.
We’ve always been about empowering people who feel like us and come from the communities that we come from and want to believe in our mission.
We want to get people of color out to vote, because their vote matters. Every politician tries to capture it. But it’s More Than a Vote because we want to come up with what’s our ask, and hold these politicians’ feet to the fire to make real change.
I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.
One thing about Ron Artest, he’s a hooper.
We look at ‘Kneading Dough’ as a brand that stands for athletes being empowered to have a conversation about finances, about what they’re going to do post-career, what they think about when they’re not competing in their sport, what they’re investing in.
Whether it’s a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.
More than’ is the tagline of the company LeBron and I started in November 2014 called Uninterrupted. ‘More Than’ is Uninterrupted’s ‘Just Do It’ or ‘Think Different.’
It’s built into the fabric of this country, you know – oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of go hand in hand.
I love football. I mean, I’ve gotten a chance to spend a couple of moments with Peyton Manning and have just deeply intense great football nuance conversation with him.
I turn to people who’ve been successful running networks, building production companies, building music companies, and people who have done it, and I ask them about their successes. And you will see them light up and give you all the information you need.
I’m just that kid from Akron who knows what he knows.
LeBron is always interested in giving fans a very close and detailed look at his life.
We’re poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it’s going to be considered a social-impact story.
I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.
I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.
In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.
I’m always reading books.
Getting a reward for reaching certain sales targets is certainly attractive.
I still deal with impostor syndrome. It’s a very real thing.
LeBron had never interacted with white people before St. Vincent.
One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person says, ‘You’re really articulate.’
I don’t like to do press. But I know sometimes I need to do it because every time I do there’s young people – black and white, but I think about young African-Americans because that’s the experience I grew up with – who hear it.
You have to understand that every negotiation isn’t about taking everything off the table. It’s cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we’re done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.
When I first left Nike to go work with LeBron and manage him, I was really bullish about managing other athletes. I really wanted to get more athletes besides LeBron and build this big management practice. And in hindsight that was a mistake.
I always tell young people: When you meet someone successful, ask them as many questions as you can. Because there’s nothing more successful people love – nothing more – than talking about their successes, and you can learn a lot in that.
When you win as an athlete that matters the most.
After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness is consistency over a long period of time.
People want to see something they’re not sure they should be seeing.
People love winners.
I never dreamed of being in Hollywood.
When you’re dealing with students who are at risk, who come from a place like LeBron and myself, you have to really focus on the whole student. And that means their parents, their family life, their home life, food.
I’d never contemplated being in TV and film. But I love working with athletes and talent and shaping great stories.
When you ask people questions about what they’ve done, not only do you get knowledge, but they like you because people like to be asked questions about what they’ve done and talk to someone who’s interested in them.
